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MORRISBURG — They entered the final with a berth at EOSSAA already secured.

With the EOSSAA curling championships being held in Cornwall next Tuesday and Wednesday (Feb. 20-21), SD&G will have two entries in each division. In the SD&G final? In for EOSSAA.

Still, bragging rights — and SD&G championships — were on the line in Morrisburg on Monday, at the Morrisburg Curling Club.

It was a two-day competition in Morrisburg, starting last Thursday (after the initial Wednesday start day at the Cornwall Curling Centre was snowed out) and ending with the playoffs on Monday.

The SD&G association will send two teams in each division — girls, boys and mixed — to EOSSAA. And yes, they should be contenders to move on to OFSAAA, being held in Fort Frances, from March 20 to 25.

“They do have a chance, definitely. Glengarry got bronze last year and we have some pretty good teams here,” said Ian Wilson, convenor for the SD&G

championships, pointing out though that only the boys and girls divisions move on to OFSAA. The mixed division ends at EOSSAA.

It’s not a sport generally taught in high school, but there are definitely some young curlers in the area.

“We usually have a pretty good turnout. Almost all of the schools have at least one team here,” said Wilson.

“We had 17 teams in all this year, which is about average I guess.”

It was the Glengarry team of Matthew Handzet, Cameryn MacLeod-Mayes, Kristen MacRae and Liam Filion that won gold in the mixed division, with the team from North Dundas taking silver. On the North Dundas team were Hunter Skov, Sara Sloane, Joey Williams and Mya Woods, with Alix Giles the alternate.

North Dundas had a team in all of the finals, coming home with one title.

In the boys final, it was the team from La Citadelle skipped by Nicolas Guindon against the North Dundas skipped team of Matthew Roach in the final, and the Guindon rink prevailed 8-5.

Other members of the championship team from La Citadelle are Amede Fontaine, Joel Carriere and Tommy Derikx.

Also on North Dundas are Ewan Wilson, Dylan Barkley and Matthew Pereira.

The girls final had the North Dundas team of skip Grace Cave, Taryn Cooper, Chloe Ziegler and Alison Roach claiming the championship, defeating Seaway’s Annaka Gibbons’ skipped team that included Martina Lewis, Jodie Robinson and Erin Gibbons 8-1.

In the girls bronze medal game, the Holy Trinity team of skip Melika Marleau, Audrey Blanchard, Taylor Dicaire and Ainsley McCuaig won 8-2, against the St. Lawrence Secondary team of skip Sarah Dulmage, Sydney Neilson, Jennifer Besner, Abbey Bellefeuille and alternate Leiba Saif.